Has this been asked before? If so then just disregard.

mine is a nickname given by my dad when I was a little girl. Used to be a name that only my closest family and friends called me but now just about everyone uses it to address me.

Where did yours come from?

JonBon asked this awhile back here: Your Web Name, Why did you choose it?

But that thread is kind of old now, so we can go ahead and keep this one open.

Mine comes from being the Supreme Commander of the Morning Hours ™.

No, actually, it is based upon by initials and the beginning of my surname (with the d added so it sounds like it makes sense).

I am a lifelong student of American history and I teach a college military history class, because of that, I had researched a few years ago our founding fathers and specifically Christopher Gadsden, a man who understood that government, unless held in check, grows slowly and inexorably. A government without limits soon becomes the master and the citizens, heavily-taxed and without security in their rights, are little more than slaves.

I have tied this philosophy into my politics. It's not very light hearted or comical unfortunately, but it represents my beliefs.

Because on weekends, I go to nightclubs in an undisclosed small city in Ohio just north of Cincinnati, get hammered on Budweisers and Tequila, and play my guitar way too loud.

I might be old, but I can still rock..

Day...uh THAT city isn't so small...

That cracks me up, DR

Pigpen is my husband's call sign. He is an F16 (going on F22) pilot.

Let's see.......... that's a good question..... well........ I'm afraid that there' not really any definite reason that I chose my username..... I tend to be a spontaneous individual, thus coming up with a spontaneous name.

Not hard to figure out mine. I am the mom of 3 kids. Maybe I should change it? Have to think of a good one before I do.
Mike don't go there!!!

No one is changing their name - think you get special treatment because you're my mother? Ha.

Of course, if anyone would like to capitalize the first letter of their name or get rid of an underscore, we can accomodate you.

I picked mine for the "shock value" because of what ted did (which I don't agree with BTW) that and I think UNABOMBER sounds kind of cool.

Izdaari is pseudo-Swahili, and AFAIK it doesn't mean anything, except that it's the name of one of my EverQuest (and now Star Wars Galaxies) characters. SWG btw is the reason I've not been around much lately ... even the hottest political debate has trouble competing with a good blaster fight.

I got my username very easily - it's my name.

Maybe I've been fantastically lucky never to have been stalked online or off, but I don't see the need to use a pseudonym. (No disrespect to those that do - I'm sure you have your reasons.)

funny you should mention that.....when I first came here and saw your avatar, I thought for sure you were a friend from a different forum who has the same avatar. Yours was the first profile I tried to read (but couldnt) when I came here. I finally figured out that your not my friend Don, lol. You dont look much like him either...he's an old dude

Mrs. Pigpen--lol....my first reaction to your name was that you were calling yourself a slob.....until I saw the "Mrs" and then I figured you were calling your husband the slob.

Jaime--I read the old name thread...you know....you look a little like your namesake too! Are your siblings named after superhero's too?

daytonrocker--how do you feel about country music? (answer carefully now!!!!)

Love it actually. Although I'm really into rock, I can't get enough of Travis Tritt, Toby Keith, Brooks and Dunn, Lonestar, and groups like that. The melodies are great and the harmonies are awesome. In fact, me and my family go to every Oak Ridge Boys show that comes close to our area. Their vocals give me chills and their guitar player is phenomenal. And you really need to see their Christmas show.

ah, me too. Ever hear the song "Thats the truth about men"? ROTFL! Cracks me up every time!

About rock....yuk on the modern kind but I love classic (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Segar, Eagles, Steve Miller, Queen...just a few of my faves)

Nah, my parents got boring after they named me.

I always try and use my real name whenever I sign up for anything online. Some people enjoy fantasy personalities that they can create online. I have no ability to do that. I kind of wish I could, it seems like it may be fun. I only know how to be me - so that's why you get my real name

I have three i use, nileriver the one i use here sounds cool to me, and was a source for a great civilization on top of it.

I got erratic_energy or inclination (in some internet places) as a result of being slightly erratically inclined ... I used to keep extremely strange and irregular sleep hours and as a result I ended up doing a lot of rather eccentric type things. Anyway I also have an e-mail addy with ASHCRASH in it...which is because my real name is Ashley and my dad made up the crash part back in elem school when I was picking my e-mail...but that seems to have stuck and a lot of people call me by it.

Ahhh, how is it that such little sentences can make one feel so old (and I'm not even old!)

lol, me too! I was in 6th grade when my school got their first computer for the students. It was an Apple. And there was only one. And it didnt get used much either!

My name comes from the Stevie Nicks song - Bella Donna. I love the lyrics to that song - they seem to describe my mood.

Everyone can just call me bela.

I don't think I've ever heard that song, but it means 'beautiful woman' Bella

It's also a deadly plant. bbbbwwwhhhaaaa

And which are you, I wonder?

Well, the platypus is just kind of my personal totem or something like that, especially online (my website is pl.atyp.us) but also to a certain degree IRL. I love the idea of something that seems like it was designed by a guy in a room with a bunch of spare parts and a few bottles of booze, but that works really well anyway. It's a "thinking outside the box" kind of critter, and that just resonates with my own personality.

Edited out unauthorized link.

I got my name from my favorite Michael Jackson song, and it's the stage name I go by when I perform!

I got it off the 'Magic Roundabout'. Some of you must have heard of it. Zebedee is a crazy guy on a spring that bounces all over the place and he's got a magic moustache (I'd like one as well).

Lets have a vote on who's got the best username (personally I think it's me but you can't vote for yourself, I don't really

Guess what? We already have place to do this!

Poll: Best User Name (Year in Review Forum)

You can also put a reminder here to nominate yourself or anyone else for next year: Nominations for next year (2004).

Please join us

"Elspeth," which is the Gothic (as in Middle Ages, not Goths) form of Elizabeth, is the name of my good paladin character in Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (currently Baldur's Gate: Shadows of Amn), which I play on the computer.

I like to imagine myself as a noble (female) "knight in shining armor" slaying monsters, righting wrongs, and having the fair young men in the kingdom swoon over me... Well, not that last part, really, that's a little over the top! But it is a romantic image.

I use it here because it is easy for me to remember. I had never posted anywhere on the Net before; AD is my first and only forum.

I use the title "Paladin" to distinguish me from "Charwoman," "Tavern Wench" or "Fish Wife," although there are days those titles would better suit my disposition!

But just calling me "Elspeth" is fine.

I don't use my real name here because there are so darn many people I don't know reading these posts. A little paranoia these days doesn't hurt...

Nice thread--it's interesting learning about the names.

Elspeth

Growing up in Grand Rapids, a regular columnist in the newspaper signed off as "The Old Curmudgeon." I realized that I had grown to be such a grumpy old man much of the time. My daughter's impetuous hugs and my wife's reflexive smile when she sees me keep me lighthearted enough to be called civilized.


Yes, I do have reasons. I remember trying to show my mother what e-mail was. The first message that popped up was from one of my brothers. "What did he mean by that?" she screamed at me. She's passed away, but I have 5 siblings scattered far and wide who comment every time my name appears in a newspaper. (I frequently write letters to the editor. Occasionally, some of them sound rational enough to be published.) My ex-wife and I have no communications, and I'd like to keep it that way.

Adapting a "nom de plume" is made easier for me than most, as I had a very strange working career. Every time I changed depts., supervisors, or habits; I was stuck with a new nickname. In one shop, I was known as "Moses," in another as "Crash," but the one that held on the longest was "Wally." I was to start a new job in the summer of 1968. One supervisor shared my first name, and another had a last name that varied from mine by a single letter. "We're going to call you Wally as long as you're in this building." Eighteen years later, there was no one left in the building who had worked with any of the three of us. However, when I went into the building on a service call, I was greeted as "Wally." During a thirty year career, my last supervisor was the only person who consistently called me by my first name.

My last supervisor also did me the favor of clearing out my "imaginary personnel folder." Someone for instance, drove a fork lift through a concrete block wall on my days off. Someone took a can of spray paint and wrote "Wally" next to the hole. Officially I was cleared, but the story attached to me. Several other instances like this got passed along as "facts" whenever I changed supervisors, and the legend grew... I mentioned to him one day that I thought I had an imaginary personnel file, containing all of the mistakes I had supposedly made over the years. (State laws and company policy required that the paper trail be purged at a maximum of two years after an event happened.) "Actually, you do." he said. We then spent a day discussing what he had been told of me, and I told him what I knew of the facts behind the legends. It took him about a month to contact people in buildings I had worked in, to see what the real facts were. He told me, that in actual fact, most of the situations had been traced to the actual culprit and punishment dealt out. None of the "facts" that had been passed on for up to 25 years, could be attributed to me. One of the classics, was an anonymous letter which every supervisor in my department had been shown. It was being used to prevent me from signing the job that I finished my career on. We were in a meeting with the section manager (a friend who respected my work and my reputation) and the chief steward. The engineer who had allegedly written the letter, according to everyone "familiar" with its source was called into the meeting. He shook my hand and said, "How nice to finally meet you. I've heard a lot of good things about you." I was awarded the job.


In high school, a math teacher I had from 7th through 12th grades tried to describe to us a phenomenon. "If you can learn to set your problems up properly, some day a machine will solve them for you." In college, a math teacher came in with a printout where he had solved pi to seven decimal places. "It's something I negotiated in my contract. I'm allowed to run one program a year on the school computer to keep my skills current."

My father was old when I was born. When Sputnik was launched, he was amazed that something could orbit the Earth."How do they do that?" I sat down, and showed him how to figure the orbital velocity for the altitude it was reported at. He was amazed that my numbers agreed with the newspaper. He then went on to tell me that when he was my (at the time Sputnik was launched) age, he was an apprentice saddlemaker. (The spell checker doesn't even recognize that word!) "I saw it as a job with a good future, because people would always be riding horses."

D O O M E D P L A N E T

Mine is pretty simple to figure out.

It's where I live. And in case y'all didn't know it, it's where
you live too.

(Beware: I've got a sarcastic, cynical sense of humor.)


((I was going to go with "Third Prison From The Sun"
but it was a little long...))

There's a school rhyme that begins with "Miss Susie had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell. Miss Susie went to heaven, the steamboat went to hello operator, please give me number nine..." I'm sure most of you know the words. We sung it in elementary school because we thought we were so cool that we could say cuss words and get away with it. And the steamboat went to hell, and hell sounds a lot cooler than heaven... so I'm the steamboat. I would spell it "SusieSteamboat" but it looks cooler with a "z"... gives it that "punk" edge

Horyok is the name of the main character of one of my novels.

He's a man on the outside but his mind and soul are the ones of a phoenix, a fire elemental. He's your typical Nephilim if you like.

Apart from his inhuman nature, his personality is very much like mine!

Suzy I know that song! I taught it to my children...was that wronf of me ?

My username is a handle I have used forever and it comes from my real name which is slavic and a lot of Americans have terrible trouble pronouncing it, altho I have no idea why..and so bucket is just one of the many variations I have been renamed by friends of mine.

quite simply, some naughty person...somewhere, took my "SoCalGal" when I was bamboozled by msn into "registering" my username on one of the poltical msn forums I used to frequent. I could not get it back...SoCalGal was lost forever

"SoCaliente_1" was kinda close, kinda just as easy to remember and members of those forums were easily able to recognized me.

and that's my story

Aquilla is a variant of the Latin word for "Eagle" and the Eagle is a sacred symbol in the culture I share with my birth mother. She was Comanche. I've used this name in various places for years and I really like it.

Conservpat is an abridged version of either: Conserve Patriotism and/or Conservative Patriot. It's multifunctional

CP

Here's a hint to mine: I'm not creative, and I'm from Pennsylvania. Extra points if you can guess my first name.

My parents owned a bar when I was little that was called "Stotty's." Our last name is Stottman, so you can take it from there. It was also my nickname all through high school. You know how guys are, they never call anyone by their first name, only their last or nickname. 203 was the street number of the first house my wife and I lived in.

well it all started when i got accepted to this school down south...

I have been called popeye since I was knee high to a grasshopper. My last name is Sailor and everyone started calling me 'popeye the sailor man'. I don't really live in a garbage can But I love spinach

It was really interesting to see the reasons that different people on AD picked their names.